Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-01
"THAT PARROT"
Crowds Visit the Embalmed Re-
mains of lead Bird.
From tie NeU FORK Herald.

mains of a lead Bird.
From tie Ne,o FORK Herald.
"Here's that - parrot again"
Such were the worCs that fell from the
lips of weary lookln, man, as he crowded
with difficulty up to the bier where the
remains of the mush talked about pet
parrot lay in state. The scene was in a
Broadway animal store. Fifteen-hundred
dollar dogs, thoroughbred cats (both
alive and stuffed), pIgeon-toed macaws,
we'll trained canary birds that never pick
their teeth in public, and several Japan
ese flying squirrels with wings on their
legs gazed with sympathy and admira-
tion on the regal corpse. The parrot lay
on the silken lining of the $500 rosewood
coffin, unconscious Of the crowd that
surged around him. The bird lay
speechless in the cod embrace of death,
but his glass eyes, which cost $40 apiece
In Philadelphia, shone with the elO-
quence of life. Owing to the excitement
about MIR. Hewitt's recent appointment
it is not generally Known that the parrot
| died of pleuro-pneumonia, caused by
| sleeping all night In draught. The SER
want girl who let her lover in through the
| backway and forgot to shut the door has
| been discharged for causing the parrots
| death. The bird was good talker and
| could swear in several languages. 1t
was originally the property OF a British
| officer in Calcutta. But after he poisoned
his wife, who was the celebrated Leslie
Ann Bradford, the parrot pinned away and
was on the point OF death when its pres
ent owner, the wife of a retired diamond
broker then visiting India, purchased the
bird and brought it to this country.
A reporter called on the lady last even
to-. fx, 10
said she did not want her name printed,
not that she cared about that personally,
but, considering the circumstances of the
birds death, she did not think too much
publicity quite the thing. The birds
coffin is eighteen inches long, OF rose wood,
and beautifully carved. The silk up-
holstery which lines the interior OF the
casket is work of art. On the under
side OF the cover are carved in antique
letters a brief but striking history of the
bird, including the wife poisoning in
cident.
The bird will remain on exhibition at
the Broadway store for few weeks and
then be transferred TO sumptuous MAUI
solemn now being erected by the mis-
tress, where it will remain until she dies.
Then the bird will be inferred with her
In her own grave at Woodlawn. The lot
has already been selected and fenced
in with an Oriental fence OF hammered
spears. 1t is emblematic OF a design In
India.
A curious fact about the parrot is that
he Is as ardeutly beloved by the retired
diamond broker as by his devoted and
beautiful wife. Since the death of the
bird both have become so preiudlced
against pleuro-pneumonia that they will
not allow the word to be spoken aloud.
The gentleman at present in charge of the
bird is a oele brated dog doctor, but he is
the parrot so skillfully embalmed and
mounted with glass eyes that it looks
exactly like a live parrot just in the
act OF screaming; "We've had hi Of a
time"
Once each day the dead bird is carried
over to his mistress. Alone with 1t in
her private room she lsvishes every eX-
preston OF endearment upon her beloved
doad.